Skirmish Paintball Norwich is a professional venue offering paintballing, airsoft, laser games and karting, with a 900-metre kart track and no fewer than nine paintballing areas to keep things interesting during longer battles.

The Plumstead venue covers 30 acres of Plantation Wood to the east of Norwich, allowing it to cater for groups small and large - you can book sessions for anywhere from around ten people to 100, although groups are usually between 20 and 30 people.

Age is usually no problem, with special birthday parties and junior sessions for 12 to 16-year-olds (more details below), and if you're an adult newcomer to laser games, airsoft or paintball, you'll never be thrown into combat against an experienced enemy.

Team-Building Days and Corporate Events

Paintballing sessions make for great team-building days, and Skirmish Paintball Norwich is the ideal venue, with its nine different zones, experienced supervisors, and 0.9km karting track to add a little extra variety to corporate events - everything you need to keep your employees thoroughly entertained over the course of the day.

The sport is an excellent option for team-building exercises as, while it is enjoyable for those who take part, it also demands cooperation and mastery of tactics - testing many of the skills that contribute towards an effective workforce in the office (or any other workplace, for that matter).

Old grudges between companies in the same town can be settled (or reignited) with a visit to Skirmish, letting Plantation Wood serve as the battleground for each firms teams as they go head to head in the fight for victory.

If you're part of an already-competitive industry, with plenty of local rivals, a simple head-to-head corporate day might not cut it. Get together with a few competitor firms and see if there's enough interest to start a league - it would make for a great long-term networking opportunity, and a chance to let off a bit of steam for any stressed-out employees.

Birthday Parties

We mentioned the Skirmish Paintball Norwich junior sessions up top, and they're a great option for birthday parties for 12 to 16-year-olds, whether it's their first taste of paintballing or the latest battle in a teenage war between a group of friends.

Experienced supervisors can make sure your children are safe - even when they're dashing through the countryside of East Anglia with a paintball gun in their hand - and will also ration their ammunition so that, if they're playing several sessions over the course of a day, they don't run out of shots too soon.

Stag and Hen Parties

Skirmish Paintball Norwich can host grown-up parties too - and they don't have to be birthday parties, obviously.

The venue is perfectly suited to an adrenaline-powered stag party for grooms determined to prove their masculinity before they settle down to the family lifestyle. Like any other party, you can choose between paintballing, airsoft and laser combat games, along with the always-popular option of adding a go-karting session to your afternoon.

If it's the bride who wears the trousers in a soon-to-be-married couple, Skirmish Paintball Norwich can cater for hen parties, too - or take a real risk and pit the boys against the girls as part of a communal stag and hen party, and prove once and for all who's likely to have the upper hand once the wedding is over.

As with the other booking options, parties of almost any size can be accommodated, from as few as ten participants to all-out warfare between an army of 100 sharp-shooters. The usual group size is 20-30 people, so use that as a guide whether you're planning a stag or hen party, a birthday surprise, or a corporate event.